Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been trying to “prepare” myself to jump back into editing on one of the stories I wrote last year. As it turns out, all I needed to do was invite people to read it to get my ass in gear on the editing! The project The new editing project […]
Week 4 NaNoWrimo Update and More: It’s Going to Be a Long Winter
If you know your movies, you know that one’s from American Outlaws, starring a few of my favs, Colin Farrell (In Bruges), Gabriel Macht (USA’s Suits), and Scott Caan (CBS’s Hawaii Five-0). The quote itself, however, is actually Timothy Dalton’s in the film. In any case, I am busy, busy, busy, though that’s pretty much […]
Week 3 NaNoWriMo Update: Writing Yourself Into a Corner
So this is late. Again. But I think I have the holiday as an excuse this time. This week’s Nano-ing went a little better–I was at least meeting my word count goals better than the week before. The answers: 1) I had to trim my fingernails for my hands to keep up my usual WPM; […]
Where Does My Inspiration Come From? A Sci-Fi Special
My Nano story is going to be giving a lot of thanks this year! It has drawn from a lot of different sources of inspiration, including Firefly, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The X Files, Numb3rs, and of course, as all space sci-fi stories inevitably do, Star Wars. One of my main characters is loosely […]
Week 2 NaNoWriMo Update: And the Bottom Drops Out
This post is a little late, considering week 2 started a couple days ago. Needless to say, I’ve fallen way behind this week on just about everything, including sleep. I just started a new part-time job on Tuesday, and trying to keep up with Nano, my internship, my blogs, and my freelance work with only […]
Week 1 NaNoWriMo Update: Progress!
The first week is over, but, I am kicking some serious novel-writing butt so far! I was so afraid that I wasn’t going to be able to find time this year with everything else I had going on, that I think I overcompensated. It did help that Thursday night’s TV line-up was limited to just […]